Friday, January 22, 2010

Surrender our problems to God

"God loves our weaknesses and he desires that his love will bring them into wholeness (that is, heal them). However, he wants and needs our trust to do it, and that is the greatest gift we give him when we sacrifice our weaknesses to him. For we would only reveal our weaknesses to someone we trusted. . . .

"Therefore, when we sacrifice our weaknesses to God telling him all about ourselves, we are paying him the greatest compliment. We are trusting him not to turn his back, laugh at us, or hurt us further as we make ourselves vulnerable to him. We are trusting his love.

"When we sacrifice our weaknesses to God we are also giving him something more--our attachment to our weaknesses." (69)

Dobson, Theodore E. Say But the Word: How the Lord's Supper Can Transform Your Life. Paulist Press, 1984.

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